A good way to unfrell. Select all the contents of the document. Copy it to the clipboard. Exit word completely. Tell it yes you do indeed want to keep the contents of the clipboard available to other applications. Go back into word. Open a blank document if you have not set it to automatically do that on start. Paste the contents into that blank document. Correct formatting that does not carry over properly in the clipboard. Save under name that won't override your old document. Voila comparatively clean version of your doc. Right now I'm seeing problems in a document this may not fix, and I may have to take it over to Open Office for repair.

I got a bit more chopping, but didn't have time to get a whole lot done. I'm starting to feel discouraged, it's getting hard to find any free time to make significant progress.

Also, I've started developing another idea. Stupid time, why isn't there more of you?

Stupid time, why isn't there more of you?

Wrod

Yeah. I'm thinking of setting something on a world around a red dwarf star. Tidally locked, absolutely vicious weather, purple and black vegetation, extremely old ecosystems, people living where there is only day, only night, or always twilight. I think it could make for an interesting Science Fantasy setting.

That does sound interesting Gud. The world-building for that would be a lot of fun.

I'm feeling all verklempt. A competition I've been involved with since January is finally ending and I feel all futless not having a prompt to write to anymore.

I think Zelazny put Jack of Shadows on a world that didn't rotate, with a nightside and a day side. I don't know enough physics to know what the gravitation would be like.

That's the book I couldn't remember the name of! Was it that it didn't rotate or was it something magical? I don't think I ever finished the book. Oops?

Gravity wouldn't be an issue. You'd need a thick atmosphere and maybe a lot of ocean to have enough convection to keep the atmosphere in place (otherwise you freeze into solids on the night side, and burn it away on the day side). That convection leads to nasty weather. (All in theory)

Was it that it didn't rotate or was it something magical? I don't think I ever finished the book. Oops?

It's a long time since I've read it, but I'm thinking it tends towards the magical explanation. Or not much of an explanation at all, just The Way Things Are. Zelazny rarely explains, but you're so enthralled with where he's taking the story from that jumping off point that you don't care.